Emotional consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in adolescents: challenges to public health.
Thaianne Cristine GadagnotoLise Maria Carvalho MendesJuliana Cristina Dos Santos MonteiroFlávia Azevedo Gomes-SponholzNayara Gonçalves BarbosaPublished in: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P (2022)
Paying attention to adolescents' psychosocial needs is essential, especially in face of the possibility of post-traumatic stress as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Health professionals' technical competence combined with sensibility, strengthening of social support networks, and engagement of different community sectors are fundamental for promoting adolescent mental health in the current transition and resignification period following the COVID-19 pandemic.